Multiples

Multiples

Price-Earnings Ratio

The price of a security per share at a given time divided by its annual earnings per share. Often, the earnings used are trailing 12 month earnings, but some analysts use other forms. The P/E ratio is a way to help determine a security's stock valuation, that is, the fair value of a stock in a perfect market. It is also a measure of expected, but not realized, growth. Companies expected to announce higher earnings usually have a higher P/E ratio, while companies expected to announce lower earnings usually have a lower P/E ratio. See also: PEG

Eating issues come up more frequently for multiples because twins and particularly triplets tend to come early and, in general, weigh less and so are at higher risk for problems with immature gastrointestinal systems.

Multiple births, including quintuplets, rose by 19 percent over 1995 to 1996 for an all-time high of approximately 6,000 multiple births, according to the National Center for Health Statistics in Maryland.

I just had questions on multiple pregnancies, what to expect, what's different, what's the same,'' said Shelton, who has three children from her husband's first marriage, a 3-year-old daughter, and now a set of 7-month-old boy and girl twins.

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